MIE Trak Pro Reviews

After using MIE Trak for many years now I can say it's a very capable system with valuable updates coming quarterly. We needed a system to manage our production and work on the floor and this system delivers. Everything we need from quoting parts all the way to fabrication is covered and gives us the birds eye view we needed to manage everything.

Typically when there is something I dislike, the MIE Trak team is good addressing it in their next build. One thing I wish MIE Trak had more of is customization. Having the ability to create new entities or reorganize the general layout would be nice but that's nitpicking.

If you need a one stop shop ERP system, MIE Trak Pro may be it. All stages of the business cycle are covered.

MIE Trak allows us to track all incoming quote requests and managing our jobs. Handling and meeting our customer's needs has become very efficient.

The Mie Trak pro team (sales to project management) provided/ supported seamless transition with installation.Mie Trak Pro Flexibility has tremendous flexibility with the reporting thus providing live information. The Mie Trak Pro MRP function has given our company the ability to react quickly and efficiently to provide a more cost effective approach to our customer base.

The inability to customize raw material part numbering.

Mie Trak Pro has greatly increased our Efficiency in the short time that since implementation. The Mie Trac Pro team (sales, project management, support) has attributed to that success, helping our company setting a solid foundation to play a part in growing our bussiness. In addition to the quality level of the product, I would encourage anyone in search of an ERP system to strongly take into consideration the team that Mie Trak has formed to help in the sales implementation, and support process.

Inventory Management.

Everything that you need to run the business is in one place so linking reports and data is very easy. MIETrak Pro is a live system enabling quick decision making

The ability to create your own SQL Reports is a big advantage. Not all system reports are quite what you need so this enables live, accurate data to be exported (Office 365 etc). Support staff are quick, responsive and knowledgeable, often solving a problem over the phone

Whilst open to suggestions and changes, this can take some time

Take a broad view of several comparable products and make sure that it suits your requirements today and tomorrow. In-house SQL knowledge a definite advantage although this is not too difficult to pick up in time

MIETrak Pro gave every user in our Company access to one data source of live information. No need now to adapt data from different sources and different time frames to help analysis. MRP drives us and with accurate stock data (this is important for MRP) we can plan short and medium term so confidence

It suited our business without the need for expensive modifications and tweaks. That cannot be said of many rivals. One of my favourite features is the quoting module....you build the quote just as you would make the part and then fire off your RFQ. Once you've got the order the hard work (in the office at least) is done, as you can create the sales order direct from the RFQ & utilise the quote info to produce a detailed work order with all notes and processes completed.

It's only as good as the info you put in, so everyone has to be on board.

The product speaks for itself, what you done know until you've purchased is just how good the support is!

Traceability.....at key points it allows me to store relevant documents. From drawings through to material certs everything is in the right place and easy for anyone to find.

MieTrak is packed with many great features to simplify day to day tasks.

It is excellent for tracking and monitoring jobs.

maintaining inventory and creating worksheets to simplify the deletion of unrequired information.

MieTrak also has an excellent group of support consultants who are very knowledgeable in the software as well as scripting.

I learn something new each and every time I jump on a call with their support group. Very patient individuals who are ready to address each and every concern you have without cutting you short.

They are genuinely concerned in getting you the help you need.

I cant really say that there is much that I dislike about the ERP but if I had to point something out I would say:

I wish there was a possibility to pick and choose more column options in all reports. In particular to the inventory qty report. I wish there was a column for receive dates.

another concern, if there was a way to limit procurement to create items to a set of item types and have a prompt window pop up and ask "are you sure you want to create this item" another window "Are you sure this item is to be inventoried?" a lot of the time, my procurement team forgets to remove the tick on inventory item and this tends to goof up the inventory when receiving.

When moving over to MieTrak, take advantage of the support consultant team as they are readily willing to help. MUST! purchase a good amount of training time, would be helpful to have someone on sight to speak and teach every department to have a full understanding and utilize tools available to you.

the sanitization of our inventory. This is extremely important to us in pulling clean reports we can trust and provide to our customers. understand the value attached to the goods sitting in out facility. Simplify things for most departments in the building, less leg work making work time more efficient.

Mie Trak is very user-friendly and intuitive. The user interface is done so open screens are tabbed. This helps make it very clean even if you have several tabs open. Other ERP's I have used seem to require a separate window every time, cluttering the desktop. The ability to use "canned" comments that can still be modified is another great feature. The customer service has been really great. Submitting questions online is easy and most of the time we get a response fairly quickly. The reps truly seem to want to help us use Mie Trak as its intended.

Key features that are awesome (plenty more, too many to list):

-RMA/ Corrective Action module is set up to use 5Why's for root cause.

-Dashboard App that runs separately from Mie Trak is very helpful to view quick status of operations in real time.

- Kiosk is extremely easy to use and train entry-level operators on its use.

- Start Screen that is configurable for individual users to see important info right away (Tasks, ECR's, messages....ect..)

- Overall cost for small business who is growing and needs to add licenses.

- Raw material must be received using a full seat, hogging up the precious few licenses on hand (Would like to see floor operators receive material straight into inventory using Kiosk.)

- The maintenance module does not have user-friendly as the rest of the system.

- The training module requires you to add training on an individual basis. (Does not have class/ training grouping)

- No module for calibration of inspection tooling.

Have reasonable expectations. If you have a question or concern, the technical support team has been very good. Be sure to actually use Mie Trak as much as possible. Don't pay for Pro but only use a small portion. Do extensive research on how many active seats you expect to be using at a given time, otherwise, you will always have folks asking if they can get on.

We have been using Mie Trak for several years, and have generally been happy with it. In the last year, it was decided that since we have paid for what is advertised as the "the only ERP you will ever need", we should actually start using Mie Trak for what is advertised instead of just the bare basics.

We have been slowly learning the full capability (and inevitable bugs I see with all systems) of Mie Trak. Although there are some modules we have yet to utilize such as scheduling, the WO tracking, quoting, CRM, RMA, and other modules have dramatically impacted how efficient we are as a business.

Clean look. Ease of use and great functionality.

Works great for fabrication.

Seems to be a lot of programming flaws and issues for this software being out so long. Functionality that should work but doesn't work properly. Column titles / Headers that aren't the same across the board. One screen calls

PO screen shows columns for Quantity, Total weight, Price, and Extended price but those exact options don't carry over to the PO receiver screen. This would be helpful to match to the PO when receiving.

It's a great tool. MieTrak support is very responsive and helpful when it comes to solving problems.

The Work order nesting and Scheduling capabilities are much better than MieTrak 32. Not as simple to use but we are still getting used to the new version. We are currently still working through bugs and fixes to mold it more to what we do.

Hello,

We have been using MieTrak Pro for 3 years at our precision sheet metal shop. We are a fairly small company and a job shop, which means we make and implement changes quickly. I need software that is as nimble and quick as we are. On the other hand, as an ISO certified company, we also need things to be done right and be fully supported including tracking our processes and archiving our prints and certs.

We have come to use MieTrak for every aspect of the business with the exception of accounting and estimating. The software is great for creating and sending Purchase Orders, tying those purchases to active work orders, tracking the progress of the work orders, checking real-time tracking, sequencing routers, employee and machine center scheduling, and basically everything we need to manage sales, procurement, production and shipping. As a person who wears many hats and works in multiple departments, I enjoy being able to start from any process able to link through to any other process to find the data that I looking for. This is helpful when there are issues to resolve. For example, I can simply start with the PO# that I wrote for some material that came in and was rejected. With just that piece of data (the PO#), I can pull up the PO, find the associated Work Order, link to the Sales Order and see everything about the order that will allow me to make whatever informed decision I need to make. I can also see where the status of the order is based on the employee time tracking and router sequencing data that is tied to the work order.

If you spend the time to learn the system and how to flow through the modules, you can basically know exactly what is going on at your company at any time and make decisions on the fly. This helps us identify issues faster, make decisions faster, respond faster and also inform the customer about any of these considerations, all in real time.

I don't have any major dislikes. Fortunately, if there are issues that I have (which come up from time to time), I just reach out to the MieTrak team and they either help me to resolve the issue, or include the fix in the next software release. They are very good about listening to what we want and then updating the software to do it.

MieTrak helps us to buy smart. We can run the MRP module and see our forecast for individual buy-outs, even if they are purchased for multiple customers across many sales and work orders. This tool has been a great cost saver and I can't imagine functioning without it. Another great function is the machine center loading/scheduling. We can plan as close or far into the future as we want to make sure that we are committing to accurate lead-times, avoiding bottle necks in the shop and scheduling the correct number of employees on any given day.

MIE Trak is very convenient and easy to use. It is pretty much straight forward, everything you enter or change under any Sales Order/ Purchase Order is saved. I liked how you can also view the last person that made changes in case of any discrepancies.

Sometimes the MIE Trak program is slow and takes a while for me to input data, it takes me longer than I should.

Get some training on how to efficiently use MIE Trak Pro, I'm sure it will be of good use!

We've been using MIE Trak Pro as a recording system, ensuring that all the work we do for our customers are inputted through MIE Trak. In doing so, it has helped T&F significantly with organization and tracking down our customer orders.

SQL Based, Dashboard creation, ability to rename fields

Need ability to create custom drop down fields

Hire or dedicate someone for 6-12 months to help get things setup. Make sure you have a firm understanding on the variables and formulas you will use to quote along with having your burdened machined and employee rates in order.

We were able to greatly improve out customer and vendor On Time Delivery through building shared dashboards showing critical data and KPIs to everyone in the company. We have starting using monitors on the factory floor for each department to help with scheduling.

Being new to Mie Track I was seeking knowledge regarding some advanced features. However, I was unsure how to express my request. Evan was able to guide me thru the steps and reports required to improve the scope of understanding the feature of Mie Track.

Actually non that comes to mind. If he didn't know the particular answer. He quickly asked for advise from another Person.

Take the time to learn the product and all of the features, will be beneficial in the long run.

Not some much a problem, just the need to understand how to access additional reports for tracking jobs, operations and material. Benefits where shared with my co-workers, they agreed the reports will help.

Mie.trak has been great at keeping all of our manufacturing data centralized and on hand for planning and review purposes. It also allows for deeper integration between company departments. Mie.Trak and it’s developers have been very good at adapting the software across multiple plants and to the variation of those plants.

A better graphic presentation would aid in the use of the program as well a more intuitive interface. The open ended functionality of the software sometimes causes you to underutilize the programs capabilities. Having used the program in our plant for a few years you still see users pulling data from the software for manipulation in other programs.

When considering MIE Trak Pro make sure you work with the MIE Trak team to fully adapt and utilize the capabilities of this software.

The biggest problem solved by using MIE Trak Pro has been the centralizing of information. With only a few clicks anyone within the organization can be looking at the information they need and it’s not being held by only a few individuals. This has allowed for increased efficiencies in information sharing.

From inventory to quoting down to the invoice mie trak is an all inclusive powerhouse for accurate and efficient accountability of all aspects of our sheet metal fabrication business.

I honestly can not think of one thing that I consistently struggle with wishing that mie trak had an application for.

Mie trak Pro streamlines all your process into one user friendly utility. Highly recommend taking a test drive!!

Job tracking for time accountability is accurately and efficiently realized. The nesting job feature suits our methods and machine capabilities perfectly and allows us to cut part costs by common material cutting, eliminating single job machine set up times.

The sheet metal item attributes allow us to accurately create quotes, sales orders, purchase order, work orders, shipments, and invoices...just the way we did on our homegrown solution...but now with all the whistles and bells. Plus a wealth of reporting capabilities.

As with most different solutions, converting from an outdated homegrown solution to a cutting edge solution comes with its learning curve. Mostly, it's more of a resistance than a real learning. Once it's embraced the learning comes quickly.

Get a demo and ask a lot of questions to see how MIE Trak Pro will meet your needs.

We gaining more realtime reporting and better profitability insights so far.

I really appreciate that there is a team of dedicated and knowledgeable service members that can assist with any issues we come across as we continue using the system and start to use additional modules.

I do wish that the documentation were a little more detailed and all-encompassing. There is a good set of core information available but doesn't always answer questions about specifics.

MIE Trak Pro took us from a small company operating via several Excel spreadsheets into an easy-to-use integrated system. It eliminated a lot of data entry and manual work on a daily basis. It help make all of our employees more accountable for correct data.

With the new version the accounting is much easier to use. unlike the older version the new one has usable accounting report that I require to send to my accountant.

Wish it had a place within the employee files to add vacation usage with out running a report like the old er version. It would be nice if it integrated with some of the GPS time keeping software that our road installers use so we could download their times directly in to Mietrak.

for metal working industries we have found that this software is much easier to use and we are currently moving our sing company to use this also

Inventory tracking,

Love the way you can move around and how things all link together. Like that they are always working at updating the software. the search features work very well.

Not grate safe guards from being able to do stupid stuff, like being able to complete a work order that you don't have materiel for... software updates see a bit buggy at first, and when first installed mess us up a bit. The documentation on the software is very lacking. Very hard for us to figure out what setting or parameters do

Make sure the implementation is well managed on both sides. Ours was not and are paying very dearly for it now.

Much easy to see product and sales history. better insight into what needs to be made. Now have labor hour tracking to job.

The manufacturing portion of it is the world I am used to living in, and for 95% of the stuff I need MIE does great. The field count is overwhelming at first, but it is better than having to pay an SQL guy to get you everything custom that you need.

I get feedback from the financial group that it is pretty weak, and they actually have some quickbook functions which work better. We also wish there was more to COGS than 4 lines permanently tied to the item cards. Some sort of resource planning not tied to WOs which is more user friendly would be great.

Managing large BOMs which were previously done in excel is outstanding. Working on implementing the KIOSK better, but it seems really laggy on some computers.

the ease in which Mie Trak allows us to track parts throughout manufacturing.

I would like to see more module specific instruction documents.

This is a reasonably flexible system, but as with all systems, make sure that you plan out your implementation and don't just import poor data.

We no longer miss getting ordered parts to manufacturing. Once the sales order is entered into Mie Trak, scheduling and tracking is much easier and reliable.

After I put in a service request, I almost immediately get a phone call. This morning, my call was answered at 6:45 am pacific time. Great customer service. The rep was very helpful in navigating my way through MieTrak.

I am looking for solutions to specific report questions. Many of the thing that I am asking for are either updates or need to be done as an extra charge. I don't really want to learn how to do SQL scripts, but I suspect that I will take a look and see if this is worth my time.

Ability to generate good reports quickly.

The flexiblity of the software. They were able to integrate our nesting software.

The delay when we open a module for the first time.

For sure

Mie Trak Pro is a complete solution for our kind of business from the quote, manufacturing and invoicing. They made a complete integration with our nesting software. We're now much more efficient.

The best aspect concerning to my job responsibilities is that this software, Mitrak, makes it so simple to track every quality related issues; such as discrepant material report, overall quality control report as well as receiving inspection and etc.

in fact, there is nothing that i would say that i dislike about this software. it is a very strong software with many capabilities.

Basically, you can resolve any documentation matters easier and simpler with this software. It genuinely helped us through the process of our ISO certification. you can have all your records in this software electronically.

The way everything is organized and how it lets you manage all the departments in one program.

A lot of extra clicks and pop up windows for simple tasks that would probably be fixed with a drag and drop feature.

We run pretty much everything through MIE Trak. Everything is much better organized.

The layout and design of the user interface. You can open multiple windows of the same process, ie, sales order, or router, work order. It allows flexibility, as you have 1 router window open that you are working on and someone in the shop wants to have you take a look at another router, you just open another window and you can work on that router without disturbing the other router.

Pulling data out for charting on a micro level like by item number instead of the global level which looks at all of the part numbers that have been processed within a year instead of a snap shot by month. Quality metrics that are needed for ISO controls.

Yes I recommend this product for use in a manufacturing business

Increased production

The ease of use and functionality is above most other ERP systems we have used in the past. The tabbed structure makes it more efficient and in our experience makes the end users more productive within the system.

Because they are based across the country from us, the response time for support is exaggerated, I would like to see support based in different time zones.

Recommend on initial conception to make sure that the server you are installing the database on has sufficient RAM because it will use it.

Mie Trak Pro has streamlined our business procedures by integrating the financial side of the business with the production side.

The Service. The Support team is great! They're fast, friendly, responsive, and will find you an answer if they don't have there on the spot.

The Dashboards are a little clunky, and custom reporting requires a bit of SQL knowledge.

Great support, SQL based, and very capable to run your business. Can support multi-division structure.

We're utilizing Mie Trak Pro for a full ERP/MRP system. Visibility on data insights and trends have all been realized with the tools they provide.

Mietrak is an extremely powerful piece of software, and is simple enough to implement for a small company, with having the ability to support the growth of the company for many many years to come.

I have zero complaints about the software. The support and company are top notch.

We are using Mietrak for the visibility of shop floor tracking and labor collections. Doing so will give us the ability to pinpoint our weaknesses and make the necessary adjustments internally to continue to grow as a small business.

What I like best about MIE Trak, is how easy it is to manipulate.

I do not like the fact that I cannot delete any mistakes(WO) that can affect other modules.

We need to solve the issue of scheduling a small shop and we realized that we can schedule people or machines

This software is very reliable and capable of generating many reports to help us with daily tasks and decisions. Most importantly the support we receive from the team at MIE is excellent.

There is nothing I dislike about Mietrak.

The system is only as good as the information put in to it so its very important to get everybody up to date with procedures on how to use the system effectively to avoid problems.

I like that this software encompasses so many aspects of our manufacturing business from beginning (quoting) to ending of invoicing and quality reports.

I wish that the resources (videos and instruction manuals) were up to date with the current release. However, when in doubt, submit a ticket and the representatives call quickly to assist.

You will want to have this software for your business efficiency.

We are more efficient, we have amazing traceability, we are able to track labor and trends in costing all in one quick system.

It keeps track of everything and can be modified to match your companies interests.

Can be slow at time with many users on at the same time. Customer service is slow at responding

All in All a great ERP program. Will help your company 10 fold. Updates are frequent and useful. Take full advantage of all the support you are offered and then some.

Ease of quoting has really increased productivity and hence has made thing go through our system alot quicker

As a project manager in my company I find the scheduling is very convenient using MIE trak.

There is not proper instructions or manual with the software.

We have improved our traceability of the jobs using the tracking report for each jobs.

The ability to see the full scope of your production.

The work orders don't close with the invoice

I would definitely recommend Mie Trak to anyone looking for a consistent and reliable method of seeing the full scope of your orders from start to finish. Print work orders, purchase orders, invoice reports, and keep track of inventory,

The purchase order receiving module is useful to create a log of your vendors on time delivery.

since it's written in .net and follows the ribbon bar structure it makes MTP easy to use and easy to train new people on.

I'd love to see a calendar based scheduling screen added.

Tracking all our quality records. i.e. Lot numberinf, NCRs and RMA numbers. We're tackling our raw material, and finished goods inventory now.

Having everything in one place; being able to see real time information

sometimes it takes a while; some modules are difficult to navigate

real time job tracking, easier to pay invoices

I like the quoting and separate routers capabilities, the inventory management is robust and the PO and receiving functions work well.

The standard costing side leaves a lot to be desired. I would like to see a true cost sheet report where material, labor and OH are broken out.

Give it a try - it has a lot going for it!

Inventory management

Over all its a competent MRP system with additional modules

The fact it uses calendar days instead of work days with lead time

Make sure you review all available modules.

Mie Trak was an improvement over the previous system that was used here. Its MRP module is effective and it offers solutions to many issues for a company our size.

Purchasing material out of mie solutions.

It's not very simple to teach others to use.

Scheduling our purchased items.

Easy to learn once you know where everything is in the system. Support is wonderful and very knowledgeable and responsive

Does not allow search for transaction by amount in general search feature.

Excellent support highly recommend.

Improved collaboration and workflow.

We really like the customization that was done to fit the software to our needs.

When we do a update on the software there is usually a function or two that we have issues with after the update.;

Job tracking. We are much better with on time delivery since we started using MieTrak

Coming from Mietrak 32, it's faster to get to a perticular part.

Having to press "save" every time you change somethingin in most modules.

The way kits are dealed with compared to Mietrak 32. alot harder to grasp and deal with.

It's database is a lot faster than the aging Mietrak 32.

Integration among different modules of the software

Some areas need more guts/development. (Recycling of Workorder nests)

Great tool for small to medium companies. More testing in needed in some modules.

Manpower and communication issues

It’s a small company, so easier to get upgrades you want.

The HR/accounting modules are weak. Every upgrade fixes 2 problems, but creates 3 more - system wide.

We are able to have most all our ERP needs met in one system.

It is incredibly user-friendly, meaning the ease of transitioning from one module to another is quick and comprehensive with up-to-date information.

Honestly nothing I dislike. Possibly , if anything could be categorized as "dislike", it would be taht there's so much to learn as far as the capabilities.

Tracking the complete cycle of an order . This retrieves information fast enough to service a Customer while on the phone with them.

Inventory module, and ability to create SQL queries within the software.

Accounting portion could use a little more attention

Tracking Inventory, building assemblies and having all that push to accounting.

The whole structure is amazing. I like the way we are being supported by Mie Solutions.

user friendliness is the issue of most of the personnel. In our case, it also runs a little bit slow which i don't have much idea technically.

product tractability as well as production time and machine maintenance.

I like the ability to look up previous transactions, it makes it easier for us to backtrack.

I don't like the amount of buttons on each screen, it can be confusing to read at times. A lot of them are not useful for us either.

Nothing to note.

nothing works very well nothing is satisfactory nothing is outstanding worst erp sw ever used

time to get improvements made time to get problems resolved acctg module is weak reports are weak no metrics built in

dont buy it

none no benefits recd

I enjoy how they're able to help us and our company with our very specific needs.

I don't like how the software doesn't read my mind.

Many that I cannot talk about, at this moment :)

availability to drill down on part number and review

Too many updates. would like to have ability to move and save profile and not have to redo after each update.

viewing scheduling via APS